Are the other Haredi deserters worth less? Rabbi Eichenstein: 'They will not ultimately be great Torah scholars''

Haredim 10
October 28, 2025   
Signs at protests with the image of 'The Torah's World Prisoner''
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Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Rabbi Yehoshua Eichenstein, head of the Yad Aharon yeshiva and rabbis of the Yated Ne'eman yeshiva, explains in a conversation with Daniel Grubeis on Galtz why the Haredi public is protesting the arrest of Ateret Shlomo yeshiva student Ariel Shamai - and not the arrest of other yeshiva students: "Now they've arrested one talmid tocham, and this cannot be considered an agenda item."'


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